Event: 7th Psi Meeting: Psi Research and Anomalistic Psychology

Promoted by Faculdades Integradas Espírita through the Integrated Centre of Experimental Research, and by International Society of Life Information Science (Japan) the7th Psi Meeting: Psi Research and Anomalistic Psychologywill be held in the city of Curitiba, state of Parana, in the south of Brazil, beginning late in the afternoon on the 17th of August 2011 and ending in the afternoon on the 18th of the same month.

The Psi Meeting focuses traditionally on Psi Research, aiming to contribute to the scientific development of this field. The seventh edition, however, expands this focus to include related areas, encouraging even more interdisciplinary perspectives. These areas can include various psychological approaches such as Anomalistic Psychology (the theme of this edition), Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Psychology of Religion, Transpersonal Psychology and Psychopathology, among others. It can also include Physics, Biology, Anthropology and History, as well as consciousness study disciplines, for example Philosophy and Cognitive Neuroscience. The meeting aims, therefore, to develop the integration of psi research with other areas, allowing psi researchers to know these areas better and vice versa.

The Psi Meeting intends to stimulate a cross-cultural approach, promoting the integration of researchers from several countries and cultures. It also seeks to spread the knowledge produced in these areas into society, aiming at social integration and feedback.

The Parapsychological Association is an international professional organization of scientists and scholars engaged in the study of psi (or 'psychic') experiences, such as telepathy, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, psychic healing, and precognition. The primary objective of the PA is to achieve a scientific understanding of these experiences.

First established in 1957, the PA has been an affiliated organization of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 1969. The PA is a non-profit, non-adjudicating organization that endorses no ideologies or beliefs other than the value of rigorous scientific and scholarly inquiry.